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Source: The Wire Season 2.
by unk 10y ago
Source: The Wire Season 2.
- spenczar5 10y agoActual source: The Box by Marc Levinson. Highly recommended. First chapter is available online: http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s8131.pdf http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s8131.pdf
- fullshark 10y agoIt always bothered me that they gave Sobotka the "We used to make shit in this country" line considering his entire job was importing stuff made in other countries.
- gwern 10y agoYou need to import shit to make shit. Whether the shit is local or international, water remains the cheapest form of transport.
- remarkEon 10y agoThat line felt to me to be more of a global critique of the decline of consistent blue collar employment in industrial towns, like Baltimore.
- fullshark 10y agoIt seemed a bit too on the nose. The Wire is great but a few thesis statement lines like this scattered throughout bug me.
- remarkEon 10y agoI've watched through probably a dozen times, and yes I can definitely see that. My comment was probably letting my rust belt roots in Minnesota shining through. That and seeing and reading a lot of what David Simon has said outside of The Wire.